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A DEAMA IN THEEE ACT8. 



BY IRENE ACKERMAU. 






NEW YORK: 
CHARLES H. BAUER, PUBLISHER, 

148th Stbeet, neab Thibd Avbnue. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1879 by 

IR E NE A C K E R M A N 

In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, I). C. 

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 



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DRAMATIS PERSON/E. 

INEZ. 

Count Diego. 

Baron Engaltare. 

Juan De Plata. 

Dennis. 

Lawyer Cummings. 

Expressman. 

Landlord. 

Father Cregan. 

Captain of the Guard. Officer of the Day. 

Soldiers. Notary. Clerks. Messenger. 

The American Minister. Clergyman. 

Ruffians. Convicts. Robbers, and Hotel Servants. 

EmnU occur in New York, London, and Spain. Peno'd 1879. 
Costumes modern. 



INEZ. 



Act I. Scene I. The horm ( ;/'INEZ, a room in a tenement house in 

New York. 

Net" /Saratoga trunk at C, 

Inez, discovered sleeping, seated in a chair, with her arm ara.hr her 
head at a tabic it. 



{Soft Music.) 

INEZ [waking] Was it a dream \ 

It seems even now to be real. 

I dreamt. 

This is no time for dreaming. 

I am here yet. In this room for the last time. Now, and here, to 
end a life of want and suffering. To be no longer the child of poverty's 
hovel. {Going towards the trunk.) But Inez the great Soprano. Opens 
the trunk.) And by your aid to enter a world, I dreamed, prayed, and 
longed to reach. No longer to live in a hole like this. In rags like these. 
{Looking at hir dress.) 



INEZ. 5 

But {speaking to the trunk) out from you to get these satins, velvets, 
silks and laces. These soft kid gloves from France, and boots from Spain, 
to decorate myself, and move where proud men shall bend to kiss my 
hand, and prouder women courtesy as I enter. 

By your aid, and my voice I'll upward soar ; the past forgetting in 
the triumphs of the future. 

Oh! my magic treasure ! (Embrace* the trunk,) How I love you! 
Not as silly maid loves dress. Oh ! no. But as new made knight his 
armor loves, so love I you. You are my armor. The stage my field. Po- 
verty my foe. You aud I will win the tight. 

I have worked and toiled to get you. I have sung in places I ab- 
horred to gather coins for you. I have kept my very body cold and hun- 
gry often here to own you. Without you I was weak. With you I am 
strong. Now you'are mine. Mine with all* your treasures. 

Come, exert your magic power. Change me. Make all that knew me, 
never know me more. And all that see me pay me homage. 
Change me from this {looking at her dress). 
And when changed, I'll stand, I'll walk. Aye!!! and rule a queen. 

(Commences to undress.) 
(Shut in quick.) 



Act I. Scene II. Street in New York City. 

Enter Dennis. 

BENITISr-It'a a hard thing to be out of work' Hard on the man, 
but harder on the wife, and children (when you have them. It's a com- 
fort, anyways, I have none of them). The legs are wore off of me looking 
for a place. (Takes tin. Herald nut of his pocket—Reads.) 

"Wanted by a respectable man who can bring the best city re 
"ferences,— Situation as coachman, footman, or butler. Eight years 
"in last place. Now out of employment; family having gone to Eu- 
rope. Address Dinnis, Herald office." 

I put that in the paper. Five cents a word, and every word the 
truth. 

Enter Expressman. 



6 INES. 

EXPRESMAN-~Mirnicing him. "Address Dinnis.'' 

Why didn't you say address James, or Thomas? Something English, 
or French, but Dinnis? I thought you had more sense. That's too Irish. 
We want style at the door. 

D ENN IS,— /True for you. Style is more in demand now than ould- 
fashioned honesty. 

EXPRESSMAN,r-"Ou\d-fashioned honesty?" You'll want knee- 
breeches, and no greenbacks — and nothing but gold and good manners 
next. Arrah ! why don't you set up for a dry. nurse, and teach children? 
I'm surprised at you. No wonder you don't get a place. 

DENNIS, — No wonder when the likes of you does. 

EXPRESSMAN,— Dennis, where are you living ? 

DENNIS,— Where I always lived— 

EXPRESSMAN,— Oh! get out— what year is it? 

DENNIS, — Eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, —of course since 
the first of January. 

EXPRESSMAN,— 0\i\ I see you know that. But you don't know 
that the electric light has outed the candles your mother had, and that — 

DENNIS, — I'll knock the daylights out of you, if you give me any 
more of your lip. Who gave you the right to talk thus to your betters? 

ETPRESSMAN,— Don't get mad, Dennis ! I like you. 

DENNIS, — You like me? What next I'd like to know; may be 
you'll be asking for a favor next, after making a morning's sport of me — 

EXPRESSMAN, — Come, let's make up. Do you know of any one 
that wants any hauling done? 

DENNIS, — Keep a civil tongue in your head, young man, for the 
future — you don't know when it may serve you. Here you are abusing a 
man that can give you a job as little as you thought it. 

EXPRESSMAN,— II you'll find the job I'll find the beer. 

DENNIS,- -When I wants beer I buys it; but if you want any hau- 
ling, the girl that lives in the room next to me wants a trunk taken to the 
depot at twelve, and it's near that now. 

EXPRESSMAN,— I'll be there for it. 

DENNIS,— She wanted a hack too. 

EXPRESSMAN,->-lW bring a hack when I come. 



INES. 7 

DENNIS,— -Now you got a job; tell me wheie I can get one. 

EXPRESSMAN,— (pretends to be in deep thought.) I don't see 
exactly,— Coney Island is closed, or you might apply for footman to the 
midgets. 

DENNIS— To whom? 

EXPPESS3IAN,— Never mind to who? That situation won't be 
open till summer. — It's a pity you are an Irishman. 

DENNIS,— "Pity I'm an Irishman ?" and is it the likes of you that 
tills me that? 

EXPPESS3IAN,— Oh ! get out ? Don't you see that Irishmen are 
only used to put others in office? Now if you were a native, I might get 
some of my friends to. make you an Alderman, or — 

DENNIS, — A native? I'm as good a man as any native in the 
Bowery, or out of it. 

EXPPESS3IAN,—Ye8, Oh ! yes; you look like it— we ought to 
have more of your pictures. — Why don't you get married and give us a 
few? 

DENNIS,— Me cake a wife? why I can't support myself now, much 
less a wife. 

EXPPESS3IAN— Support a wife? That's another of your old- 
fashioned notions. Support a wife — what for? Make her go to work, and 
support you? That's the way some of us, natives, and some of the in- 
telligent foreigners do. 

DENNIS,— Support me— why should she? 

EXPRESSMAN,-^ Because she's a woman, and you ought to take 
your ease, except when you like to work. Because it's her business to 
to do whatever you like. Because you can make her, for you're the strong 
est. 

DENNIS,— Ain't you afraid that "dacent baste'' of a horse you 
drive would kick the head off of you, and such sentiments as them out 
of you ? I think he would if he knowed it. Now look here, my chap. I 
have stood your chaff long enough; bub if you open your mouth again a 
woman in my presence I'll make a native corpse of you. Bad luck lo me, 
but I will — 

EXPRESS3IAN,—Ge\> out, you foreigner! 



8 INES. 

DENNIS, — A foreigner? Me a foreigner? Throwing off his coat to 
■fight the Expressman, I'll show you who you call a foreigner — 

EXPRESSMAN,— See it you can citch up with the wagon. You 
foreign bondholder,! 

Exits. 

JJEVNIS, — (Putting on. his coat) A foreign what? What's that he 
called me? If ever I get my eye on him, and the police ain't nigh, L'll 
punch that head of his till I learn him to know an Irishman, and a de- 
mocrat at that from a foreigner. 

Exits. , 

Scene shifted. 



INEZ. 



Act I. Scene III.— The same room in the garret; INEZ standing 
near the trunk, magnificently dressed, walking costume. 
(Baps at door.) 

INEZ, — Come in. 

Enter Landlord. 

LANDLORD,— I was looking for the girl that lives here. 

INEZ,— Are you the landlord? 

LAND LOUD,— Yes, lady; her month is up to-day. 1 called for 
the rent. 

INEZ, — Here is money she left with me for you. (Hands him mo- 
ney.) See if it is right. She has left for good. I got her a better posi- 
tion. I only waited for you to come, and the man to take this trunk, — 
she has been making some clothes for me. I forgot I will have to stay 
until the man comes who is to get these things (points to the furniture). 
Is the money right ? 

LANDLORD,— AW right, ma'm. When you go out leave the key in 
the door. I'll be back in an hour (As he is going.) 

INEZ,-*-\l you see the expressman send him up. Please tell the 
hackman I will be down soon. 

LANDLORD,' (Obsequiously) — Delighted to serve you, ma'm; I'm 
glad the girl has got a better place ; she was a good tenant, paid her rent 
punctual, — a good girl, — though a little airy sometimes, — proud-like, but 
a very good girl. Put the key in the door as you go out, ma'm. (Going, 
turns.) May be you'd like me to stop to help you, ma'm? 

INEZ^No, thank you. 

LANDLORD, — Good day, ma'm. Leave the key in the door. Good 
day, ma'm! Exits. 



10 INEZ. 

INEZ {Laughing), — Well, that's clone. That's done. He never knew 
me. Spoke better of tne than I expected. {Tapping the trunk,) You have 
changed me. 

(Raps.) 

Come in — 

Enter EXFRESSMAN. 

EXPRESSMAN,— We were told to come here for a trunk. 

INEZ, — There it is, take it to the Grand Central depot. Wait there 
until I come. They are carrying the trunk out. Dennis Enters. 

Expressman and Dennis make faces at each other, as they p>nss. 

DENNIS to Inez, — Beg pardon, Miss. Where's the girl gone that 
lives here? There's a hack below waiting for her — 

INEZ, — She wanted it for me; she has gone earlier than she ex- 
pected. I got her an excellent position. Are you the man called Dennis, 
lhat lives in the next room? 

DENNIS,— Yes, Miss. 

INEZ, — She told me to give you all these things, and this money 
as a keepsake, and to say good-bye for her. 

DENNIS, — God bless her wherever she goes. An honest good girl 
she always was, and Oh! the illegant voice she has ! 

INEZ,- Tell me all about her. 

DENNIS, — Well, you see, Miss, I hear she was an orphan child 
when she was five years old — an ould Italian fiddler that was a great mu- 
sician took charge of her; and raised her [what raising she got in this 
house). He taught her music, and singing. Between him and the public 
schools she got her education. He polished the beautiful voice God gave 
her, but he almost broke the child's heart with his outlandish ways, he 
was so cross. One tiling I'll say for him. He sent her to the dancing 
school. There's where she got that style and grand walk of here. Aud ho 
brought her up a good Catholic, Miss. 

INEZ,— Where is he now? 

DENNIS,— Dead. God rest his soul ! Well, Miss, she then went out 
by herself to earn her living. 

INEZ,— How? 

DENNIS, — She took to siuging. Sometimes in the saloons and gar- 
dens, then in the Varieties, until one day when my poor old mother was 



INEZ. 



11 



dying in the next room. While the priest was giving me mother the last 
rites she sat here singing. The sound of her voice went in and round the 
dying woman, like an angel's singing, and made her smile even as she 
died. When we had closed my mother's eyes [weeps] Father Creegan 
asked me who was that singing. So I ups and tells him. "Dennis," says 
he, "if we could only get her to sing in the chapel, 't would be the' mak- 
ing of us," says he. 'Why don't you ask her?' says I. "An' I will," says 
the priest. 

INEZ,— What then ? 

DENNIS,— In here we comes, and the priest asks her fair and easy 
like. 

INEZ— What did she say? 

DENNIS, {Laughing)— Father, says she, I'll sing for a trial for no- 
thing, but if I suit I'll want pay for my singing, as well as you do for the 
services. 

INEZ,— Oh! didn't the priest get vexed at that ? 

DENNIS,— Not he. He laughed hearii.y. "That's fair, ' says he. 
Come and sing for the Virgin and me," says he, "and if you sin<»- in the 
chapel like you sang that Ave Maria just now, you will till the chapel 
with rich people, and I'll raise the pew rent on them. Then I'll give you 
ten cents on every dollar of the raise," says he. 'It's a bargain Father ' 
says she. So next Sunday she sang, Miss; and such singing was never 
heard at Mass before. The priest raised the pew rents instanter. He <rot 
the money, that's more. Then after awhile he raised them higher, and 
higher. The chapel was crowded, and the plates piled up with the monev 
in them. She and the pew rent kept rising higher and higher. And now 
glory be to us all ! Father Cregan is a made man, and building a new 
church, and the Cardinal asks him to dinner. Al; owing to the blessing 
of heaven, and that illigant, sweet voice of hers. That's the truth ; and 
now when she was doing so well, she's gone! We'll all miss the darling 
good girl, but the chapel will miss her most. Sue was too good for the 
likes of us. 

INEZ, (As if a sudden thought strikes her) Aside, — Why cannot I 
take Dennis with me? He could be my servant. In his new mistress he 
never will recognize the Inez he knew. I would feel safer. I must ar- 
range it. He shall go. 



12 INEZ. 

DENNIS,— Do all you can for her, Miss. 

INEZ, — I will indeed. Good-bye! [Goes to the door; turns.} Good 
bye! I will tell hor how kindly you spoke of her. Perhaps I may engage 
you myself. Good bye for her! 

[Picture] INEZ at the door. 

DENNIS [falling on his knees],— Oh! Blessed Virgin! Shield 
her wherever she goes. 

CURTAIN. 



INEZ. 13 



Act II. Scene I. Hotel in England. 

BARON EN GAL TARE S Room . BAR OJV an invalid disco - 
vered sitting in a large arm chair. LA WYER CXJMMIJVGS at tie 
table opposite the Baron, with a lawyer s green, hag, by him — on the table 
■pens, and '-ink, a. little bell, &c, etc. 

Baron., — Have you prepared the deeds and my will, as I directed? 

Lawyer , [Takes papers from bag,] — Yes, here they are. There is a 
blank line in each. When that is filled with the name of the person you 
wish, and you execute them the matter is fiaishol I have a notary and 
two clerks as witnesses in waiting. 

Baron, — Put the will aside for the present. Now fill the blanks 
you spoke of with the name of Inez De Plata of New York, daughter of 
my beloved friend, Juan De Plata. 

Lawyer, (Looks astonished.) 

Baron, — Cannot I do this? 

Lawyer, — Most assuredly. (Writes in each deed.) 
Baron,— When I have executed and delivered these papers to Ma- 
demoiselle, does not all the property enumerated in each of the deeds 
immediately become hers? 

Lawyer, — The moment she takes the deed." fum you the property is 
no longer yours, it then becomes hers. 

Baron, — That is what I desire. Now I am ready; call the wit- 

es. 

Lawyer, (rings). 

Enter Servant. 

To Servant,— Tell the gentlemen waiting to come up. 
Exit Servant. 
Enter NOTARY and CLERKS. 



14 INEZ. 

Baron,— Gentlemen, please witness my signature to these deeds. 

Lawyer, Puts them before him. 

Baron, — Where shall I sign? 

Lawyer, — Points out the place. The Notary and Clerk? stand 
round the table looking at the Baron signing the papers. When the 
Baron ha? finished the Clerks sign as witnesses. 

Baron to Notary , — I acknowledge this to be my act and deed. 
Please put the proper certificate to each dsed. 

( While the Notary is doing this Baron rings.) 

Baron, to Servant, — My compliments to Mademoiselle De Plata. — 
Ask her to please come here. 

Exit Servant. 

Notary, hands deeds to Lawyer; he looks -at them; seeing they are 
correct he hands them to the Baron. 

Lawyer, — They are completed ; all you have to do is to dehver each 
one to the lady. 

Enter INEZ. 

Inez {to the Baron,) — 1 trust you feel better to-day. 

Baron, — Thank you, much stronger. 

Inez,— Did you rest well last night? 

Baron, — Better than since I had that attack on the steamer. 

Inez, — Are you not taxing yourself too much ? Are these professio- 
nal people J Had you not better leave business to your agents until you 
are entirely well? 

Baron, — I have some papers to give you. I sent for you for that 
purpose. Gentlemen, permit me to introduce to you, Miss Inez De Plata 
of New York, the party of the second part in these deeds, which you 
saw me execute, and which I now deliver to her. . 

{Hand? Inez the deeds — she takes them, listlessly — sits down in the 
Chair the lawyer ha? risen from). 

Baron. I thank you, gentlemen. — May I ask you to retire for a 
short time ? 

Exit All, except Baron and Inez. 

They are sitting at the table opposite each other. 

Inez. — {Holding the deeds), — I suppose these are my eoutracts. (I 
will read them to-night.) But now tell me when shall we leave for the 



INEZ. 15 

Continent, You must not think that I am not sorry to see you ill. — 
Indeed I am. But I am impatient to be doing something; to be at 
work. To — to— come out ; to sing, and have you taking money in, in- 
stead of paying it out— out— always out. 

Baron, —(Is all this time looking at her with toonder studying 
her.) 

Baron, — Ambitious. 

Inez, — (Rises-walks t-]> and down-, getting more and more excited. 
Baron putting the questions to draw out her real character, which is an 
enigma to him.) 

Baron, — Would rather rule than serve 1 

Inez, — Servo? me serve? lam American born, and the equal of 
any. 

Baron, — Had rather rule ? 

Inez, — Aye ! and I will rule. Put me on the platform you promised, 
and I will show you then whether I'll rule, or not. 

Baron, — I will do what I promised. 

Inez, — Then put me there. Put me behind the footlights. Fill the 
house from pit to dome with kings and princes, with statesmen and with 
warriors, with beauty, fashion, and with wealth. Crowd all the world 
therein. Then leave me upon that stage alone. And I, girl that I am, 
I will rule them all. Their proud necks shall bend before me, their 
breathing stop, their pulses quicker beat, and when the last note, like 
perfume mingles in the air, spontaneous, and with loudest shouts they 
to their feet shall spring to honor her that rules them. 

Baron, — But you cannot do this without money. 

Inez, — But you cannot do that with money. 

Baron, — I do not doubt your power, but great though your powers 
bo, without money they never can be heard. Like caunon, without pow 
der, so are talents without money. 

Inez, — Then use your money so as tj put me where I can be heard, 
and I will make a noise a world shall hear. 

Baron,— This illness I could not help. I did not intend to tell you 
how serious it is. But now *I see I must. I have heart disease ; and at 
any minute I may be extinguished, like gas at opera. 

Inez (aside),— Heart disease ? Die'? If he should, what would be- 



16 INEZ. 

come of me? — Pardon me, indeed, I am very sorry — very sorry, — if you 
will let me I will nurse you myself. 

Huron, — Perhaps you shall until I am better, or die. 
Inez, — Oh 1 do not speak of dying. I will nurse you so carefully if 
you will let me. Say I may ? 

Baron, — Would that be proper ? 
Inez, — Proper ? 

Baron,, — What would the world say — ? 
Im ;-;,•— The world ! — What care I what it says ? 
Huron, — You should oare, for idle tongues move fast and false. Slan- 
der loves to sprinkle its vilest poisons on the stage. 

Inez, — I have no time to think of that. My life is pure, my object 
good. Let the buzzards on the carrion feast. They cannot harm me. 
Baron, — They would ruin you in your profession. 
Inez,, — Then what am I to do ? I cannot let you die. If you should 
how am I to reach that platform you promised to place me on. 
Baron, — I will show you how to reach it. 
Inez, — How ':• 

Baron, — The first thing is to place the means at your commaud. 
Poverty is like a thick fog, it keeps the brightest light from shining. 
Inez, — But lightning can pierce and scatter even a fog. 
Banm, — Only for an instant. 

Inez, —If I am poor I can make riches for you and me. Take me 
where my light can be seen, and leave rest to me. 

Baron, — And for, that purpose, take this money, (hands her a roll oj 
hills). They do not take up much room. 

Inez, — {takes them listlessly), How much is here ? 
Baron, — About fifty thousand pounds. 

Inez; — Fifty thousand pounds. {Drops the money on the table.) 
Baron,, — Take them, tbey are yours. 
Inez, — For what ? 

Bur on, — To help to support the platform. 
Inez, — Why not give it to your agent ? 

Baron,, — I have nothing to do with the Opera. That money is for 
you. 

Inez, — What, are you not an opera manager ■ Did you not engage 



INEZ. 17 

me to sing in opera ? Are not these papers {pointing to the deeds) my 
contracts ? 

Baron, — Opera? All I ever had to do with the opera, was to buy a 
box. I am the Baron Engal tare. These papers are conveyances to you 
of property worth about five millions of pounds. 

Inez, — Five millions of pounds, to me ? 

Baron, —Yes. 

Inez, — That wealth mine — given by you ? 

Baron, — Yes . 

Inez, — Then you are a near relation ? 

Baron, — I am not. 

Inez,— Axe you mad, or am I ? 

Baron, — We are both perfectly sane. Can I not do what pleases 
rae with my own ? 

Inez, — [aside). Not an opera manager, not a relation. What is the 
meaning of all this? A baron bringing me to Europe— giving me millions 
—what for ? 

Baron, — {takes the money from the table and hands it to her again). 
Do me the favor to accept this. 

Inez, — 1 will not touch one penny of it. 

Baron, — Do not be so excited ! Please hoar me. 

Inez, — Not one word now ! (rings— furiously). 
Enter Dennis. 

(Pointing to Dennis), — Would you believo that man? 

Baron, — Implicitly. 

Inez, — (to Dennis), Look at me— who am I ? 

Dennis, — (aside), Be the powers, she's mad. 

Inez, — ,Why don't you speak — who am I? 

Dennis, — Why you're my mistress of course, — 

Inez, — (aside), He does not know me — 

(She puts on the little shawl she had on when first seen in the garret) 
Dennis, who am I now % 

Dennis, — Blessed Virgin ! But you're the girl the ould Italian rai- 
sed— 

i^e.c!,-^How long have you known me ? 

Dennis, — Since you were so —year-old, (Holding his hand about as 
high as his hip from the floor.) 



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Inez, — Now tell that man there {points to Baron) if you ever knew, 
or heard aught of wrong of me — , 

Dennis, — Wrong of you? — Niver ! A truer, hetter girl never lived 
thau you. I'd knock the teeth down the throat of the man that would 
deny it. 

Inez, — Do you hear him -Do you believe him ? 

i?a?- cm,— Indeed. I do — 

Inez, — Did you think that you could buy mo ? 

Baron, — Buy you ! Be calm, and hear me. 

Inez, — Calm; oh! yes calm. "Heart disease, suddeuly die,'' — alia 
part of the some plan. 

Baron, — I beg you to heir me, 

Inez, — No. But you hear me. You thought "money was power.'' 
Yoa had it by millions. You saw me. Your plan was to lure me through 
love of my profession, through my ambition, to get me away from friends 
and country, then to dazzle me with your magnificence, and blind me by 
a gift of millions, appearing before me like Jupiter in a shower of gold. 
But you know not the girl you thought you could get with money. Me 
witli money ?— There take your money and your deeds — {Takes them 
from, and dashes them back on the table). I am poor, but too rich for 
any mau tobuym.3. I stand here penniless and alone. No, not alone 
for here is (points to Dennis) one honest man before us, and God above 
us, to see how I scorn and despise your gifis, and you. 

Baron, — You would be light to scorn me, if I had such thoughts of 
you Me, think thus of you, the child of my dead, and dearest friend. I 
would be a wretch indeed. 

Inez, — What meant you then 1 

Baron. — I loved your father, he and I were classmates — 

Inez,— Loved my father. You knew my father ? 

Baron, — Knew him and loved him without ceasing from the day 
when we first met in college. Twenty -three years ago, your father emi- 
grated to America, after that I lost all tidings of him. When I inherited 
my present wealth and title, I went to New York to find the friend of my 
youth, and share with him all I possessed. Instead of him, I found his 
grave. His orphan girl was singing in a little chapel. I wept o'er one, 
but rejoiced to lind his child was left to take the wealth I intended for 
him. 



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Inez, — {weeping), Forgive me — 

Baron, — I saw Father Cregan. I told the good priest all. He and 
I thought what I have done was the best wiy to bring you from that 
little choir, to station and to wealth 

Inez, — I want them not. 

Baron, — And as I knew that my life might at any minuie end, to 
elevate yon as high as in me lay, by leaving you that which is morj turn 
wealth, or title — 'the nimj of an honored and respected wife. 

Inez,— Wife ? 

Baron,. — Yes, by making yon my wife, which I do most desire, and 
entreat you to let me do, and thns add to your happy life, wealth, and 
title. 

Inez, — And you thought your wealth and title would bring groat 
happiness to me? 

Baron, — I hoped so. I trust so. 

Inez, — And at the cost of losing ray profession, shattering my hopes 
and my whole life's ambition, burying the talents God gave me, making 
me the holder of your bounty, the bearer of obligations thrust upon me 
cutting the wings I hope to fly so high upon, trammeling my freedom, 
changing my whole life, m iking ma instead of the prou 1 free girl I was, 
a woman, whose whole end must be to please the man that made her 
his wife and a Baroness. These were the great benefits you wero to 
give me. Say the cruel, cruel wrongs you would do me. 

Baron, — I may have erred, my sole aim then, and now, is to advance, 
protect, and provide for the c.iild of my dead friend. 

Inez, — I do believe you. 

Baron, — Then be my wife. A clergyman is in waiting. I have had 
a special license obtained, and only wait your answer — 

Inez,- I want to think, this is all so sudden. 

Baron, — Most solemnly, I tell you that, I have spoken the truth I 

beg you be my wife, most likely before an hour shall pass, I sh ill have 
left this world. --B j now my wife, I then cm spaodior, happier fly to 
meet your father. And when I meet him it will rejoice him to hear, 
and me to say, that I left his child my name, my title and my wealth — 

Inez, — Well be it so, but only on this condition. That until I love 
you — (and that I do not now — ) I will never be more of wife to you, than 
the law doth make me. 



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Baron, — I am content, the sooner the ceremony is over the better, 
shall I call them? 

Inez, — Yes. 

Baron,- -{rings). 

Enter Dennis. 

Tell the cleryman, and tbose waiting in the parlor to come up — 
{Exit Dennis). 

Enter, Dennis, Clergyman, Lawyer, Notary, Clerk, and others. 

Baron, — rising, I have called you to witness my marriage with this 
lady, the daughter of my dearest friend. Mademoiselle are yoi ready? 

Inez, — I am, {Gives him her hand — ) Dennis, stay close by me. 

Ejnscopal Clergyman, (standing in front of them ) 

Clergyman — Where is the license? 

Lawyer, — {Hands license to him — Clergyman. Looks at it, seeing it 
is correct — puts it in the breast of his gown). 

(The marriage proceeds in pantomime — then the Clergyman looking 
round says.) "Who giveth this woman to bo married to this mau"? 
All are silent. 

Inez, — D^inis, I have noao this day to do a kinsman's duty. Take 
thou the place of him that death has taken from me. 

Clergyman, — ''Who giveth this woman to b3 married to this man." 

Dennis, — I do and proud am I to do it. 

{Marriage proceeds in pantomime.) 

Clergyman, — "Those that God has joined together let no man put 
asunder." 

{Raises his hands. Benediction in pantomine.) 

Baroness, allow me t-> wish you a happy wed led life. 

Inez, — [sinks in a chair — as if trying to see if she, toas dreaming.) 

Baron, — to Lawyer) Quick, fill up the blank in my will, as I direct. 

Lawyer, — [takes the will, is preparing to write. Looks at the 
Baron ) 

Baron, — Write — My hmorad and biloved wife — In3z the Baroness 
Engaltare (Lawyer writes — ) Quick ! Quick ! Let me sign it — 

(Signs the will — Notary and the two Clerks standing round the table 
witnessing the) (/Jaron, signing) Gentlemen {to the Notary and clerks) I 
declare this to be my last will and testament. That is my hand and seal, 



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please witness this my will for me. {The Notary and two Clerks sign 
their names to the will — The Lawyer hands the will to the Baron.) 

{The Baron holding the will falls back in his chair), Baroness {she 
starts), Inez {she rises,) Baron {gasping — hands her the will,) my wife 
{gasps) God shield you {gasps.) {falls back in the chair — Dies — ) 

Inez — Help ! Help ! He has fainted. 

Lawyer, — Baroness, he is dead. 

Inez, — Not dead — Not dead, Oh ! 

Faints, and is caught by Dennis. 
End Scene I. Act II, 



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Act II. Scene II. The same room in the hotel that the Baron 
died in. 

Discovering LAWYER CTTMMINGS, sitting at a table, DENNIS, 
standing near him. 

Dennis,— ^When is he to be buried, sir? 

Lawyer, — We are only waiting for the Spanish Consul. 

Dennis, — Had he any relations, Sir? 

Lawyer, — Not to my knowledge. 

Dennis, — If he had would that hurt my lady? 

Lawyer, — Not a particle. 

Dennis, — So my lady is safe anyway ? 

Lawyer, — Quite so. 

Dennis, — No relation can bother the property ? 

Lawyer, — But he had no relations. 

Dennis, — But if be had, sir ? 

Lawyer, —It would make no difference. She holds some of the pro- 
perty by deed vesting it in her prior to the marriage. The rest she takes 
by last will and testament. 

Haps at the door. 

Lawyer, — See who that is. 

Dennis, — [Opens the door. Receives a salver from a hotel Servant; 
2>resents the salver to Lawyer he takes visiting card from the salver. 

Lawyer,- -It is the Spanish Consul. I will go down and see him. 
Lawyer, Exits. 



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Dennis, [talking to himself], — Me poor lady, what will she do now? 
Go back on the stage ? Arrah ! Dinnis what are you thinking of ? Is it 
the likes of her, an she a baroness, go on the Varieties? (Not but there's 
as good women there as anywhere, and better; for they work harder; some 
of them supporting their husbands and their children ; some their fathers 
and mothers — and they too ould to work for themselves) ; I knew one. 
Oh ! stop your varieties. Dinnis, sir — Do you think she'd iver go any- 
where now but on the opera, whore they play and sing that outlandish 
tongue the ould Italian taught her in the garret at home. Arrah ? an why 
did'nt he lave me tache her Irish ? why should'nt she lam it now? She 
can larn anything with that head of hers, she'd larn Irish 'fore Christmas. 
And then with that voice of herd. Oh! Mother of Moses, would'nt she 
bate all their operas, singing Irish. Dinnis, sir — You're a fool ! Who'd 
go to hear her sing Irish? Who? The avenues, be Gorra ? that's who — 
besides a slice of Brooklyn, Jersey, Harlem, and many a one from up, 
and down-town. — That's who would go to hear her sing Irish — 

Dinnis — Sir — suppose you set up for a manager — (just to lighten her 
heart of this sorrow) sure she'll never be free of the trouble 'till she's 
singing agiu ! Set up for a manager to plase her. Larn her the rale ould 
Irish yourself. Rent Gilmore's Garden, thin with electrical lights, and 
big posters, and letters a foot long, stuck all over town, and on the fmces 
and rocks across the river as fai as Philadelphia, and on the other side 
out by the Park, and down to Coney Island, rading like this : — 

[Drawing with his finger in the air, each imaginary line, as he 
reads it. Standing, (J. fronting the audience.] 

Trimindious Success 
of the grate 

MISS BOUROUGH 

a legitimate disendant of 

. BRIAN BOUROUGH 

and the only rale one of the kind in the world. — 

Under the management of 

GENERAL DENNIS MULLONEY, 

at 

Gilmore's Garden, 

in a ginuine Irish Opera, 

— called — 



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Erin wili get her own again. 
None but the ould Irish aristocracy admitted to the Boxes. 
Tickets $5.00. 
Divil a less, for they're all taken- - 
(There's a manager's janius for you. "The ould Irish aristocracy." 
That one line will put every one of tho women, pestering the life out of 
the ould man, for the price of one of thim boxes.) 
Seats in chairs, 50 Cents. 
Seates without chairs, 25 Cents. 
Gineral admittance. Go as you plaze. (That manes — with, or without coats) 
—10 Cents-- 
There's a bill for you There's the thing to fill the Garden, and take 
in the money. Be the powers but I'd spend it in the country I got it 
from — an that's more than a Chiniman does. Dinnis — Sir — You're a grate 
man, that head of yours is wonderful ; 't will be the making of you yet. 
And wo'nt she smile again, when she's back on the stage, the darling ? 

Enter Lawyer, and sits down. 

Lawyer, — Come here, Dennis, and listen carefully to what I tell 
you— 

Dennis, — Yes, sir. 

Lawyer, — Dennis, I am going to trust you. I believe you are an 
honest man. 

Dennis, — Well that ain't much to brag of, I had an honest man for 
a father before me, and he's in Ireland now, living comfortable in his 
ould age ; thanks to me lady. 

Lawyer, — It is of her I wish to speak. I ara afraid there is trouble 
in the future for her. 

Dennis, — Trouble, — I'd like to see the man that would throw a sha- 
dow of trouble on the ground she walks on, much less on her. 

Lawyer, — Ind it is because of your devotedne3S to her that I am 
going to confide in you, so that you may know what are the evils that I 
apprehend, and therefore be always near to guard her. 

Dennis, — What is it, sir? 

Laicyer, — The Spanish Consul has just now told me that he had no- 
tified his government of the sudden death of the baron; tendering to carry 
out any wishes of the relatives. That he had received an answer. That 



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there were no relations of the baron alive, unless his sister's child, which 
if living would be Alfonso the Count Diego ; but whether he was alive or 
not, was not positively known. But it was believed that he had been 
drowned at sea while £a boy. That upon receiving this answer he had 
advertised for information of the Count, and offered a reward of— £1,000 
to any person who would produce proof to establish that the Count was 
alive and where he was now. 

Dennis, — An I suppose he asked you like a grate American once did, 
"What are you going to do about it?" 

Lawyer, — Exactly. 

Dennis, — And what did you say, sir ? 

Lawyer, — That my client an American lady had married the baron. 
That he by his last will and testament had left her all his property and 
made her his executrix. That whether the Count Diego was alive or 
dead, it could not affect the property. 

Dennis, — Oh ! then he's a gentleman, sure. 

Lawyer, — He then said that the day following the insertion of the 
advertisement a man called on him, and said that he knew that the Count 
Diego was alive and that if he was paid the £1000 he would produce the 
Count in six weeks ; that the Count had gone to sea wiien he was a boy, 
had been shipwrecked, but escaped, and he knew where he was. That he 
told the man to call to-day — and that his man would be at his office at 
2 o'clock, and asked me what course he should take. 

Dennis, — What did you say to that, sir ? 

Lawyer, — I simply said that he could do what he thought best, but 
that I did not believe one word of what the mtn said. That my client would 
not give him one shilling — 

Dennis, —And why should she pay to fiid a poor relation? There's 
no sense in that ; they always find their rich relations, without much dif- 
ficulty. If he's alive he'll find her — divil a doubt of it. But what did the 
Consul say then "? 

Lawyer, — Only that he should inform the man of what I said — 

Dennis, — A gentleman that, every inch of him. 

Lawyer, — I fear there is trouble in this. I am positive the Count 
Diego died while a boy. I think that some sharp, cunning rascal who was 
thoroughly acquainted with the baron, knowing of his death, and seeing 
this advertisement conceived the idea of going to the Spanish Consul, tel- 



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ling him that story so as to obtain the £1000, and afterwards to appear 
himself as the Count' Diego, the baron's next of kin, and thus claim the 
whole property. A well conceive 1 scheme, as infamous as it was cleverly 
planned. 

Dennis. — If iver I lay an eye on him. 

Lawyer, - Bj quiet, Dennis. You cannot defend your lady and her 
property from such a plot as t*h it, with violence. 

Dennis, — Aye, then, I'd brake the neck of him — what am I to do, 
sir? 

Lawyer, — Be watchful. 

Dennis, — Watchful, a bull-dog shan't bate me at that ! Watch for 
her ? I'd die for her. 

Lawyer, — Do not a'arm her by telling her anything of this. If you 
see anything suspicious, or any one prying into her affairs let me know. 
In shoit be always near her. 

Dennis, — Yes, an 111 keep me stick handy. 

Lawyer, ^.She may go to Spain to see the baron interred, and settle 
some business there. If she does, redouble your watchfulness, and advise 
me of anything that you think unusual. Do you promise to do this ? 

Dermis, — I do, and I will on the honor of a man. 

Enter Inez, — in Widow's Weeds. 
• The Lawyer puts a chair for her. 

Inez, — You are very kind. When will he be buried ? 

Lawyer, — There will be services at the chapel this morning. TJieu 
the body will bo sent to Spain, to be placed in the family tomb. 

Inez, — Am I to go ? 

Lawyer, — Not unless you desire it. 

Inez, — I do. 

Lawyer, — Well, as >ou prefer. 

Inez, — Where is he now ? 

Lawyer,-In the next room. Do you wish to see him 1 ? 

Inez, - Presently. ( Weeps) . 

Lawyer {Hands Inez a photograph of the Baron), — When we wore 
putting his things away, I saw this; thinking you would like to have it I 
kept it out for you. 



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Inez, — Thank you; {looking at it). It is very, very like kim. ( Weep- 
ing,) Oh ! Baron, why did I not understand you sooner ? I did not love 
you ; but now I almost do ; Oh ! Baron, what shall your widow do ? — 
How shall she act ? Why did you leave her so soon ? Oh! Baron, Baron, 
I am so wretched ! 

Dennis, — My lady, do not take it so hard ! Don't cry ! 

Inez, — Tears ? These are not tears ! 

Lawyer, — He is happy. He was a good man. He loved your father. 
Therefore he has left you all his wealth. 

Inez, — It is that wealth which bows me down ; that changes me from 
what I was, to what 1 am. It oppresses me. I do not kuw what to do 
with it. 

Lawyer,, — You can do good with it. 

Inez,— And I will. But how 1 

Lawyer, — There are many ways. 

Inez, — You had his confidence ; now you have mine. You knew him 
well, his plans, his views, tell me, what would he have done with it if he 
had not found me '? What would he have done ? 

Lawyer,—! do not know. 

Inez, (to the photograph), — Baron, you found me poor. You made 
me rich, but your riches weigh me down, my spirits are all gone, — my 
ambition checked. I waut to bo myself again, but I cannot. Baron, 
what shall I do with it? Baron, what would you have me do with it ? 

Dennis, — She's going crazy. God pity her. 

Inez, — Oh ! that I was back in my garret again ! 

Lawyer, — God will tell you in his own good time, what use to make 
of it. 

Inez, (to the photograph), — You were a good man. Forgive me for 
ever speaking kai\«h'y to you. But oh ! I could not help it. I thought 
you were going to put me on a different stage than this. 

Dennis, — Sit down, my lady. 

Inez, — Sit down 1 I must move. — Act, — Jo,— anything but be still. — 
Is this me ? where now are all my hopes, where now my aspirations, 
where the longing for the day 10 come that was to try my powers, and 
make my fame? Where that confidence in myself that knew no doubt, or 
hesitation? Where the engrossing thoughts that once possessed me'? All,— 
all, — are gone. And what is left of me ? Nothing but this body, this flesh 



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and bone ; — that's all. My very name is changed ; — no one calls me Inez 
now, — but the bironess ;— n;i I who is she? I scarcely know her. Inez, 
was myself. Now I am new in station — new in name. Oh! thai I 
was Inez again ! 

Lawyer,— Baroness, I b?g you, try and compose yourself. They are 
going to close the casket. I) > you wish to-sea him before 'tis done. 

Inez, — Ye-, I'll g;o and sea iiim. S*eB him for the last time. 

Lawyer, — .Shall 1 go with you, or do you wish to see him alone ! 

Inez, -Alone. I'll go alone. I am alone. 

{Curtain drawn back, showing a Coffin, Inez moving towards the 

casket.) 

Music— -End of Scene II. Act II. 



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Act II. 
Scene II. * Woods in Spain on the outskirts of the City. 



Enter Count Diego. 

Count Diego {looking around), Yes. this is the place ; there is the 
big' tree; it is as secluded here as if there was not a house within a 
thousand miles. Who would think a great city is within a gun shot of 
this deserted wood? Many a time when I played truant have I hid here 
until school was out. It will serve mo now for another purpose. No 
danger of being heard here. Few come here in day light and none at 
night. I wish that ruffian would come. It must be past the hour I 
told him, or may be it is my impatience that overreaches time. No 
wonder it does. Mine is a game where the stakes outweigh those of 
Baden-Baden, my life, if lost, prodigious, wealth it won. Should I lose, 
— well, who cares ? I have day to die ; it can only shorten the days at 
the worst. But if I win the days will then be filled with power and all 
the homage that the world to the rich man cringing brings {whistle 
outside). That's the signal now to answer. 

[Takes a whistle out of his pocket, whistles ttoice which is returned 
outside. 2 hen Count Diego whistles once ] 

Enter Juan De Plata. 
De Plata,, — Here I am. 
County — You should have been here before. 

De Plata, — Wait until yoti own me, before you say should. What 
do you want with me ? 



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Count,— ,To do me a service for which I will pay you well. 

De Plata,— /.That's more like it. What's the job and how much? 
Though I don't want to go back where I have been the last fourteen 
years, if you'll give enough for the risk I'll try to serve you. But I 
want no fooling. Money down, that's me ! Now out with it, plain! — 
What's the job"? Where's the money? I don't know you, and you don't 
know me. Money down— short acquaintance; I come, you go; do your 
business, have the money in my pocket; things settled, no need of meet- 
ing again, part good friends.. — cash and no credit. I'm done,, — cash — ! 
[Holding out his hands] 

Count,- -Not £0 fast, my friend; I never pay until the goods arc 
delivered. 

De Plata,— ^hen what did \ou come to me for? I don't sell on cre- 
dit; I don't know you. 

Count, — But I know you, so wait until I talk a. little. You have 
done the most of it since you came. 

De Plata,— Go ahead! 

Count, — You came out of prison about two weeks ago, after solv- 
ing fourteen years for killing the mate of the ship you were on while 
on the voyage from America here. You got fourteen years of convict 
life for that "job"'. I'll pay you better than that You sec when you 
did a 'job' 7 for yourself it didn't yield much. Moral,, — Don't go again 
into business for yourself; hire out, — you'll do better! 

De Plata, — Who asked you for your advice? 

Count, — Don't interrupt me, or be hasty ! We'll understand each 
other better. 

De Plata, — You're too smooth for my liking. Suy what you want, 
or I'm going. 

Counter- Going? Not till I'm done with you! 

[Takes out a whistle/ gives a long quivering whistle.'] 

Ruffians appear instantly at each wing. 

De Plata looks around; sees he is surrounded by men and cannot 
escape. 

I thought you were one of the secret police. But you can't hurt 
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Count,— You mistake again, and you're not going until I say so. 
Do you suppose I'd trust you here, to let you go until I told you? 

To the ruffians who are at the entrances on each side, — 

Come here ; take a good look at this man! 

[They all surround De -Plata; peer in his face; look at him from 
head to foot.~\ 

Count Diego, — ,Follow this man! [pointing to Be Plata~\ night und 
day; never let him be out ol your sight one instant. If you sec him go- 
ing near the police, or anywhere likely for him to squeal, cut his throat. 
Don't let him out of this wood until I give you the signal. When I do 
follow him as close as his own hair. Now go where you came from, 
and wait for the signal Go. 

Ruffians exit. 

Count Diego lights a segar. 

So you "don't give credit?" You credited me with too little sense 
to suppose that I'd trust , : you. No, my cautious friend, I don't trust 
you, but you shall work for me, and on credit too- When your "job" 
is doue I'll pay you gold enough to fill your hai; you shall not grumble 
at the pay. I know you want to go back to America. 

De Plata, — How do you know that? 

Count. — Never mind now ! I know it. Now do what I ceil you, 
and you shall go there with money enough to live without ever doing 
a "job" again. You'll find me .a good cash customer. I cannot get 
the gold to pay you until you do the work for me. But wlicii you do 
you shall have it. 

De Plata, — Suppose I refuse, what then ? 

Count, — Then you're a dead man. A corps 3 or two in these woods 
makes little difference. I rather think it w »uld improve the scenery — 
our friends just left are of the same opini m. You forget what I told 
them. 

De Plata (aside), — I see no way out of this. I suppose I'll have to 
kill, or be killed. If I could only get that whistle. 

Count (taking out the whistle), — I'm waiting for your answer. Do 
you agree to do whatever I tell you, or forfeit your life ? 

De Plata, — Of course I do since I have to — (Snatches the schistic 



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out of the Count's hands), No I don't. I have changed my mind — why 
don't you whistle now for your canaries — 

{Count — Takes another 'whistle out of his vest pockety quickly — and 
whistles two sharp notes- — 

Suddenly the ruffians are back with their knives in their hands--) 

Count Diego (with a mocking laugh), — You see I carry two. I did 
whistle as you requested. (To the ruffians) Go back ! — Exit Ruffians— 
Now what do you sa;y ! Do you accept ? Will you obey me ? 

De Plata, — I suppose, I must. 

Count,— Will you? 

De Plata (sullenly), — Yes. 

Count, — There is an American woman stopping- at one of the hotels 
here. I want you to send her to heaven, she is too good for earth. Get 
her a through ticket with your stiletto. 

De Plata, — How shall I know her? 

Count, — She shall be pointed out to you, Her room is the one on 
the first floor, with a window fronting the street 

De Plata, — Killing should always be avoided if possible— what do 
you want to kill her for? Is it to rob the room? 

Count, — What's that to you ? 

De Plata, — Well if you want your work done clean, how am I 
going to do it in the dark? I don't want the job, but you make me. Bet- 
ter get some other fellow who won't bother you with questions — 

Count, — No, you must Jo it, — I have gone too far with you. You 
must not touch anything in th it room. Whan she's gone it will all be 
mine — Tint's the way I get the money to pay you. 

De Plata,— Who is she ? 

Count, — The Bironess Kugaltare. 

De Plata, — I thought you said she was an American — 

Count, — An 1 so she is. Tee Baron went to America, with the ro- 
mantic id o\ of hniiug a college chum of his, a good for nothing: rascal 
called Juan De Plata. 

Di Plata, (starts asids,)—It he did but know to whom he was 
talking — 

Count,- -Th,a fellow wis de\d but I13 left a daughter — Tne 
Baron brought her to E lgland, and intended coming here.— lie sent me 
on to make preparations for his arrival. — While I was here, he died — The 



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Consul sent the news here, and enquired for his relations. — I knew he 
had none, so I returned. Went to the Consul intending to claim his pro- 
perty, and was referred to a lawyer. — There I found the baron had 
married an American woman, and died in a few moments — leaving her 
all his property, and that she had come here with the body, to have him 
buried- -I hurried back. I have powerful friends — no matter how I get 
them — I have them — when she is out of the way — they will have the 
whole thing set aside and I declared to be the Count Diego and as such 
get all he left as his nearest relation — Do you see now why you must 
finish her without robbing her? 

De Plata, — Let me think.— Is there no other way % 

Count, — No, — I tell you, no — she is the daughter of that fellow that 
died — 

De Plata,— Of who ? 

Count, — Of Juan De Plata. Did'nt I tell you he married her, a few 
minutes before he died? — (De Plata puts his hand on his knife), if you 
don't kill her ! Those who use me, will have it done. I am only their 
tool — to reach the Baron's property, of course, they make me the Count 
Diego and give me half. What's the matter with you ? 

De Plata, — Nothing, except I'm chilled with cold, and the scare 
your pets outside there gave me. 

Count, — Take a drink of that (hands him a flask; De Plata drink*). 
— Now do what I tell you, and you are safe, neither you nor I can stop, 
I am more in their power, than you are in mine. Those fellows out 
there, who watch you — watch me — so the sooner we finish this by putting 
her out of the way, and having me made the Count Diego, the sooner we 
both get the money and save our own lives. 

De Plata, — There's where you are wrong, the sooner she is dead, 
the sooner you will be killed after they have made you the Count. — You 
would not Irust me. Do you think they'll let you live with their secret 
or me either? Mark my words, after you get all the property as the Count 
Diego you'll die suddenly (aside — I must save her life.) 

Count, — I must run that risk, it is the only way. 
. De Plata, — If you'll pay me well I'll tell you how to get all the pro- 
perty, save yourself, and get her besides. Pay me well, and I'll show you, 
and wait for the money until you get it. 

County Tell me and I will. 



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De Plata,— Marry her, don't you see? Marry her, you get it all as 
her husband, without any thanks to them. 

Count, — That's worth considering. That would give it all to me ; 
yes and her too, (until I have done with her.) I'll think over it. Now 
recollect : If you even breathe to yourself one word of what I told you, 
you are a dead man. From this minute you are under the eyes of those 
whose knives are as sharp as their consciences are blunt. Meet me to- 
morrow at the same place. Now you can go 'till then. ( Whistles two 
short sharp notes, and one long note. Ruffians appear at the wings.) To 
Ruffians, — Let him go, but never beyond your sight! 

Exit De Plata, — folloioed by the others. 

County — Murry her? There's a good deal in that advice. I hate her, 
yet I would give much to have her. She's beautiful, but that spirit of 
hern, — oh ! I'd break her neck in three weeks But would she marry me? 
Why of course, if she sees she'll lose her lately gotten title and riches unless 
she does. A singing girl give up them ? She's not such a fool. Marry 
her? I'll think of it. 

End of Scene III. 



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Act II. Scene IV. 
Inez's room in a hotel in Spain. Inez seated. 

Inez, — I wish I was out of this place. I feel oppressed. I cannot 
sleep at night. The very air is heavy. Why should I stay here longer? 
The baron is in his last resting place, in that cold, cold tomb. That 
tomb has left its chill upon me, its icy chill. I wish I had not seen that 
abode of dyath. It will stand photographed on my brain forever. It 
seemed to me as I stood between the rows of those coffined knights and 
dames, as though they hated me, and colder in their shrouds got be- 
cause I a stranger held their title and their gold. Perhaps they would 
have liked me better if they knew how little I prize it. I had rather be 
Inez, living as I was, and when dead to be laid within the breast of my 
mother earth; in my own free land, there beneath its daisies nestled, 
until the trumpet shall sound to bring its dead flowers and me to immor- 
tal life, than to live here abarones-, and dying molder in that grand but 
awful tomb. I am frozen with dread of unknown ills ; I feel that I am 
surrounded by evils that I cannot see. I cannot bear this, I will leave 
here. Pshaw! Am I so nervous grown that I suffer from imagination ? 
This comes from thinking, thinking, thinking, when I should be doing, 
doing, doing. — 

— Rises in nervous petulance, — The whole of it is, the sooner I get 
away the sooner I'll feel better, and the sooner I dismiss from my mind 
the load of responsibility this sudden possession of enormous wealth has 
placed upon it, the sooner I will feel like myself. 



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— Sits — meditating, — I must have some one to manage it for me. 
But who can I get, and who can I trust? I know but three men I would 
trust. First, there is the baron's lawyer, but he's too busy with law. 
Second, there is Father Cregan, the dear old ram ; he knows more of 
heaven than of earth. Third, Dennis — why I might as well give Dennis 
my guitar to tune. Good, honest Dennis ! Why he is so troubled with . 
his own money, that be gives me his wages to keep. Who can I trust ? 
Oh! happy thought! My country, I'll trust it all to you! — In your 
bonds it will be safe from tire and from thieves, in your bonds it will 
yearly bear good fruit. There I will plant this golden tree, and its rich 
fruit shall go through channels safe and sure. To elevate my sisters, to 
find homes for the sick and suffering of my sex, to teach them the means 
of selfsupport, advancing them in all that's good and defending them from 
harm. 

I will write and direct the baron's lawyer to have this done without 
delay,— 

May heaven bless the undertaking ! 

, — Writes — seals the Letter. — Rings. — 

There, that is done. Now I feel a great deal better, ever so much 
better. 

Enter Dennis. 

{To Dennis), — I want this letter to go to London by the first mail. 
It is important ; now be sure that it goes by the first mail. 

Dennis,— Yes, my lady, but to be sure that it does go, I'll take it my- 
self to the English Consul and get him to send it with his letters. Thin 
it will go, safe and sound. The baron's lawyer tould me always to do 
that with important letters. I'll go at once and do it. Will you want 
anything before I go, for 'tis a long way to the Consul's house ? 

Inez, — No, thanks, that is all now. 

Exit Dennis. 

Did I ever think that having so much money would make me miserable, 
and that I would be doing my best to get clear of it by giving it to 
others ! 

{Noise outside as if trying to open the window.) Inez starts,—What 



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noise was that? All this has made me nervous ! I had stronger nerves in 
my little garret room. 

Noise again. Inez starts, then becomes perfectly self-reliant. That 
was somebody trying to get in at the window. Is about to ring. Dennis 
is out. Goes to the trunk, quietly opens it. Come here, my little friend. 
Takes out a revolver. I want you now that Dennis is gone. She goes to 
the table, sits, Mr left hand on the table supporting her head, Tier right 
holding the revolver, under the table. Feigns sleep. 

De Plata — Looks at her through the window, enters, stealthily ap- 
proaches the table, leaning across it. Looks at Inez, who suddenly rises 
and points the pistol at his head. — What do you want ? 

De Plata, — I am no robber. I mean you no harm. 

Inez,r— What brings you here ? 

De Plata,— I have periled my life to come here to speak to you. 

Inez, — About what ? (Puts the pistol in her pocket). 

De Plata, — About your father and dangers that surround you. 

Inez, — My father ? What do you know of my father ? 

De Plata,— None knew him better than I. 

Inez, — You are trying hard to deceive me. 

De Plata, — No, on my salvation, no ! 

Inez,— Go on. 

De Plata,— I was in college with your dead husband. He was a noble 
youth. We loved each other dearly, but we never met, after we graduat- 
ed, for 1 went to America after my mother's death — which was about 
twenty-five years ago. 

Inez (aside), — What tale is this 1 

De Plata,— D&j by day I got poorer, and then to add to my misery, 
I met a young girl as poor as myself, but oh! so beautiful! I married 
her, she and I existed, and that was all. She died, leaving an infant girl, 
and me too poor to even bury her. But kind people did. The poor are 
oltener kinder than the rich. 

Inez,, — Aye ! well I know it. Did you love her V 

De Plata, — Indeed, indeed I did. 



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Inez, — Who was she? 

De Plata, — The orphan girl of a musician, she tried to live by teaching 
music. She had very few pupils and they could pay her but Utile. 

Inez, — Tell me where she lies, and I will plant the earth above her 
thick with flowers. 

De Plata, — I do not know where she lies, 

Inez, — Do not know? Why not? did you not see her buried ? Why 
don't you speak? 

De Plata, — [Hiding his face, bending over the table,) Because I was 
in jail for beating her while I was drunk. 

Inez,— Beating her? Oil ! you wretch! 

De Plata,- I was so drunk. I did not know what I was doing — 

Inez, — Oh ! how I hate you! 

De Plata, — Oh! do not hate me ! I am your father ! I came here 
to save you ! 

Inez, — You, my fa'.her? Save raa ? You lie, I never came from such 
a wretch as you ! My father is dead !] 

De Plata,- -1 wish he was. 

Inez, — Great God, is this my father ? 

De Plata, — Yes, this is your father, and her I told you of was your 
mother. You were three years old when she died. I never knew until 
this day why she was taken, and I was left; but I know it now. It was 
to save you. 

Inez, — To save me ? 

De Plata, — Yes, I see I was kept alive until now, to save you. Lis- 
ten. After your mother died I was but seldom sober, but I managed to 
keep you and myself alive. I used to leave you with the old Italian who 
lived in the next room. He was seldom out, because he was a composer, 
writing music for songs ; that was the way he lived, and little he got for 
it. He said you were company for him, so he took care of you. One 
day I wa3 near the wharfs with some Spanish sailors. We all got drunk. 
What happened next I never knew, except w'.iea I awoke. I was out at 
sea upon a Spinishship bound for a Spmish port. On the voyage, I 
struck the mate, I struck too hard, it killed him, they put me in irons, 



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tried me when I reached the s'uo.-e. My life was saved because I did not 
strike until I was struck, but as an example to all sailors (so said the 
judge) I was imprisoned with hard labor for fourteen years I was relea- 
sed but two weeks since, 

Inez, — When free why did you not go with honest men and work ? 

De -Plata, — Honest men ? what honest men would go with me? or 
wbo would give the convict work? I was trying every way to get back to 
America to find out if you were alive. 

Inez, — What did you do for food and shelter ? 

De Plata, — I herded with those who had been convicts like myself, 
or would be It was this or starve. 

Inez, — How came you here? And how came you to know me? I do 
not believe I am your child. 

De Plata, — You are my child. The child I loved in a>l these years, 
and longed once more to see. 

Inez, — If this was so, how came you to find, and know me '? You 
had not seen me for fourteen years. I was only five years old when iast 
you saw me. This is a tale to get money by working on my feelings. 

De Plata,-~God knows I tell the truth. Last night whiie in a cellar 
where some of us late convicts burrow, a man approached me, told me 
to meet him in three hours in a wood outside of the city, and when I 
came he would show me how to make more money than I ever bad. I 
did it, what happened when we met is not important. I found myself 
in the power of a gang of cutthroats who since then watch me every mi- 
nute, at thj command of the baron's valet. 

Inez, — Of who ? 

De Plata, — Of the baron's valet, who there stood before me. He 
told me your whole history and wanted me to take your life for gold. 

Inez, — Murder me ! 

De Plata, — He wants you dead. He has those acting with him, 
who will have him declared to be the baron's next of kin, who will go 
further, decree your marriage void, the will invalid, and give the baron's 
property to him. That's why he wanted to hire me to murder you, 

Inez. — To have me murdered ? 



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H)e Plata, — Yes and me to do it. He little knew he was talking to 
your father. From him I heard all about my little girl. Oh ! God, how 
I suffered while that man talked to me in that wood. My hand was on 
my knife to kill the man th.it wanted to force me to kill my child.— 

Inez, — Why did you not kill him, there and then? You would have 
done it if you had been my father. 

ODa Plata, — I tell you I was going to put my kuife in his heart, 
when I saw that if I did, some one else would be palmed off as the Count 
Diego instead of this valet, that if I did not pretend to agree I would 
never leave that wood alive, and some one else would surely assassinate 
you, This valet is only the tool of mighty people, powerful people ! 

Inez,— Get me away from here! I'll give you gold enough for every 
risk you run! 

1)e Plata, — You would be killed before you could leave this town. 
Their spies are all around. 

Inez, — What shall I do ? Go on tell me what happened next ? 

1)e Plata,— I pretended to agree, I promised to obey him in all 
things. I was and I am in his power ; my li r e is worth less than yours > 
and in greater danger. I advised him to marry you, showing him that 
by marrying you he could save himself, get all your wealth and you. I 
counseled him to marry you. 

Inez, — You say you are my father, aud counseled him to marry me ? 
De Plata, — Yes, and I counsel you to wed him ! Wed him, to save 
your wealth — and life- -else thfty will murder you. 
Inez, — Me wed him ? Wed that wretch ? 

H)e> Plata, — Oh ! my child, wed him. They are full of power those 
who u?e him to get your wealth. I beseech yju to do what I tell you — It 
is the only way to sive your life and wealth. It is your father who wants 
you to save your life by wedding him. — 

Inez, — Wed that slimy snake ? 

H)e Plata, — Yes, for by so doing you keep his deadly fangs from 
your fair life. He runs great risk, great risk ! He'is watched, as well as 
me, and no one but a man in love would take such a risk as he will take 
a f he marries you. 



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Inez, — That devil, love me? How do you know this ? 

<De .Ptata,— Because he said when I told hitn that he need not kill 
you but to marry you. That he would think of it, that it was worth 
considering — that that would give him all your wealth aDd you until h© 
was done with you. 

Inez, — And you heard him say that, and let him live and you, my 
father ? Oat of my sight ! I abhor you ! My God ! My God ! Can this 
be my father ? 

Runs to her trunk, takes out a purse and throws it to him. 

{He lets it drop.) Take it, take it, I say. {Reluctantly he picks up 
the purse.) Go, there is gold enough to take you from this country and 
keep you from committing crime. Go, and never let me see your face 
again. {Points to the door.) Go, go, go ! 

Exits De Plata 
Oh ? My God ! this is too much ! 

End Act II. 



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ACT III. 

Scene I. Spain, — A cellar, — Convicts, — Robbers playing cards, 
others lying on the floor, others drinking, — Door with steps leading down 
into this Robber £ Den. 

First Robber,— ,When I was behind the bars. 

Second Robber, — Stop that, we all have been there. 

Third Robber, — .Yes, know it all. Tell us something we don't know? 
— something fresher. 

Robber enters with sack on his back. Throws it down. 

Bobber, — There, that's all we got to-night, and hard work at that. 
Had to break open two stores and a kitchen to get that. Times are 
hard, and people ore getting too poor to be robbed. 

First Ruffian. — ,The whole lot ain't worth two ounce.-! Try a bank ) 
or a swell's till the next time. No. use of wasting genius on such stuff 
as that. 

De Plata enters, goes off by himself, sits down dejected. 

First Ruffian [to De Plata'], — What's the matter ? Got the repent- 
ance, and only two weeks out ? Want to go back to the quarries? Take a 
pull at this, ami you'll feel better. [Hands him a bottle.'] 

De Plata {drinks, hands hark the bottle,) — Good fellow ! 

Fnt<a- Count Diego. 

Count goes up to De Plata, and says in low ruin, —Have you fin- 
ished her ? 

De Plata— No. 
Count,— Why* 
De Plata, — My heart failed me ; I can't. 



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Count,—! told you I had given up the idea of marrying her. The 
last thing I told you was to make your knife transfer the property to me 
by cutting her — [Motions across his throat]. 

De Plata, — I can't do it. 

Count, — Chicken-hearted! Any of these fellows here would do it 
for a tenth of what I am going to give you. 

'De Plata, — No, they couldn't. That Irishman is always near her. 

Count, —Pshaw ! Wait till she goes to bed, get in through the win- 
dow, a slash with a sharp knife, and she's in heaven. The gold is yours, 
and you on your way back to America. 

2)e Plata, — It can't be done. Dennis puts a cot across her door, 
and sleeps on it every night. To get into her room a man would have to 
move Dennis and his cot before he could open the door. 

Count, — Then fiudsome other way. 

H)e Plata, — I don't know how. 

Count, — You don't know how? You're a pretty strawberry and cream, 
chap! You don't know how? What pious people educated you? You don't 
kno w how ? 

2)e Plata, — And I don't. 

Count, — And you shall, and do it too! Do you suppose that after my 
disclosing to you my plans I'm going to let you off now? You forget what 
happened in tbe woods ? Go this night, and let not the sun see her alive, 
or — 

De Plata — Rising, — Or? Finish your words. 

Count,-— Or, I'll finish you — 

De Plata, — I won't touch a hair of her head, but you shall not leave 
here alive. You're not in the woods now with your gang to come when you 
whistle ; you're here ; here among my chums. My Couut, valet, you for- 
get where you are: You had your palls 'round you last time — I have mine 
now. 

Count t — Derisively laughs, — Ha! Ha! Ha! {Takes out a segar, lights 
it.) Call your "palls,"— we'll see if they will do what you tell them Ouce 
for all — will you kill her ? 

De Plata, — No — But I'll send you where you wished her to go. {To 
the Buffians) Men, here is a spy — (Ruffians all dram their knives and 
spring towards the Count). This fellow is one of the secret police, he 



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has been trying to bribe me to sell you ; offered me fifty doubloons to 
squeal on you. Kill him, and throw him in the river. 

The Ruffians make a dash at the Count with their knives. Count 
makes a sign with his hand. — The instant he makes the sign the Ruf- 
fians all drop their knives. Row their heads. Standing like statues be- 
fore him. De Plata looking at them in wonder, and they at him viith 
fear — 

Count, — You see what a mistake you were making. Pick up your 
knives! — {They do it) — Now bind that lying hound. — {Pointing to De 
Plata. — The Ruefians seize De Plata and tie him,) Search himl — {They 
search him, and find Inez's purse, showing it to the Count.) — 

First Ruffian, — Here is a purse with the word Inez engraved on the 
rings — 

Count, — Damnation ! Divide the gold among you. Give me the 
purse! Those whose sign you saw, ordered that man to do what they 
wanted. He swore he would. — But instead of doing it he betrays their 
secrets, and tries to have you kill me. I am their officer. You know 
they open and shut prison doors ? 

First Ruffian, — We know it, tell us what to do, and we'll do it. 

All the Ruffians, — We'll do it. 

Count, — Get a rope, hang the dog ! 

De Plata, — One minute to make one prayer. 

Count,— 1 give you two minutes. {Takes out his watch.) 

De Plata, kneeling — tohile a Ruffian puts a rope Wound his neck, 
prays with his tied hands lifted up,, — Oh ! God forgive me all I ever did. 
This man wanted me to kill my own child — will you who are a just God 
let him murder me, because I would not murder my own child ? 

Count, — Your child f Is she your child ? 

De Plata, — She is. 

Count, — I don't believe it. What is your name ? 

De Plata, — Juan De Plata. 

Count, — You lie, you dog. — You lie ! 

De Plata, — Untie me, let me write to her — read the letter, and send 
it to her yourself — you can get her answer in less time than an hour, and 
you'll see if I lie — 

Count, — Untie him. {The Convicts do it.) — Now go to that table. 



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One of you go and get pen and ink. I want him to write a letter. (De 
Plata walks toioards the table, gets near it— and suddenly runs up the 
steps to escape. He is on the steps, when the Count draws a pistol, aims, 
fires. De Plata reels on to the floor— siaggers, and falls dead ) She 
ought to pay me for that. The door is burst open. Count escapes 
through a trap. Soldiers—^/ the doorway— and aim their muskets at 
the Convicts. The Convicts cowering down under the muskets. 



End, 



Scene I. 



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Act III. Scene II. 
Reception room. Same hotel in Spain. 



Count Diego — Enters — Followed by a hotel Servant, puts down his hot, 

takes out a visiting card, handing it to the Servant. 

For the Baroness Engaltare. 

E.i- it— Servant. 

Count, — Will she do what I wish ? I can't have her put out of th e 
way, as 1 intended. She's on her guard against that. That cursed convict 
must have told her. She musb either marry me, or — well, never mind that 
now. The first thing is to see if she will marry me. I don't think she'll 
refuse when she knows what it will cost her to refuse me. But I'll first 
try and coax her — all women are either won by praise, or fooling. Thev 
think they are wronged if a man don't lie to them, though they know he's 
lying, when he swears he thinks that she is an angel ; that he loves her; 
so he can't live without her. She's no exception, I should judge, like all 
her sex, she wants to get either riches, or love; she has riches. I'll show 
her I adore her, love her to distraction, and wind up by showing her, un- 
less she takes the man that adores her, she will lose all her newly found 

wealth and 

Enter— ^Inez. 

Count. — Baroness, I have the honor of calling on you to — 

Inez, — What is your business. I must be excused from anything 
but important business. 

Count, — It is very importint business, or I would not have called. 



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Inez, — Be seated, and let me hear it. 

Count, — You are a lady of great ability and — 

Inez, — Your business, and please be explicit. 

Count, — Since you command it, —well perhaps it is best to be "ex- 
plicit." I came here under a fictitious name. Had I sent you mv true 
name you might not have seen me. You see I am changed in appearance 
as well as name, since you don't recognize me. ' 

Inez,— I never saw you in my life,— what is your motive for comine 
tome? s 

Count, — My motive is to see a woman I adore, and to save her life 

Inez,— Leave off such language ? To save me,— what can you know 
of me? 

Count,— I know your whole history from your birth and life in the 
garrets of New York, to this hour. I know that unless you do what I tell 
you you will be in your grave before sixty days are gone by. 

Inez,—(ltises to go.) - Sir ! 

Count,— .Wait and hear me. You need not be afraid of me. 

Inez, — Afraid of you ?— {Derisively,) — Afraid of you ? 

Count,— Then hear me, and afterwards do what you wish. 

Inez, — Be brief then. 

Count,— I was in America when the Baron was lojking for your 
father. You see I talk like an Englishman. 

Inez,— I'd understand you better if you would act like an Englishman. 
Be as blunt, and honest as one 

Count,— I will be blunt enough to please; you, I hope. Well I first 
saw you in the choir in New York. I heard you po-ur forth a flood of 
melody like a s'-ream of music running out from heaven's gateway. Every 
d >y after I watched you for the Baron and myself. 

Inez,— Fox the baron, and yourself? 

Connt,—Xea for him, to report your duly iif ., for myself to feed the 
passion that your beauty woke within me. 

Inez— (rises,)— Another word like that and I leave the room. Who 
are you? 

Count,— Alphonso, the Count Diego, the barou's nexof kin and heir 
at law. 

Inez,— Out, you lying imposter, or I'll hand you over to the police 



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— you the Count Diego ? I know you now — you were the baron's valet . 
How dare you come into my presence ? 

Count, — You are not in America now. You're in Spain. If you hear 
me, it may save you trouble. 

Inez, — Hear you ? You who hired a convict to kill me ? Come, do it 
yourself. (Draios a stiletto) — Why don't you do it now? If I am in Spain 
I can defend myself from hearing words of love from such a slimy reptile 
as you are. 

Count, — I like that — magnificent. Take your choice — marry me or — 

Inez, — Or what — ? 

Count, — Or be arrested and tried for conspiracy — poisoning and ob- 
taining in that way the baron's property. If this charge is made against 
you by me you will be garrotted, I will be declared to be entitled to the 
property and will take it all as next of kin. 

Inez, — So failing in having me killed by your bravo you would try 
the law as a cheaper, safer assassin. You forget no one would be- 
lieve it. 

Count, — Any court in Spain, or in America would believe it. You — 
yourself if in a jury box would believe it. Listen to it— ^and then say 
whether you would be declared innocent. 

Inez, — You cannot frighten me. Tbe courts of Spain will defend 
the innocent. 

Cov-nt, — Does this sound like innocence? A Baron of enormous 
wealth in the piime of life goes to America, sees a singer in a little cha- 
pel, a girl not twenty years old, and of wondrous voice and beauty. This 
girl's whole life has been spent among those who live in garrets.frequent 
low concert halls and variety theatres of the commonest order, and who at 
the time the Baron saw her was living in a garret, singing in that choir, 
but whose every dollar was saved to purchase dress, not to wear then, 
but to fill a trunk, with what purpose none knew but herself. But this 
she did day after day — for the detectives tracked her doing it. One day 
magnificently dressed she joined the baron up the Hudson, stays at the 
same hotel with him, calls him Mr. Engaltare, the manager, tells every 
one— she is going to Europe with him, that he has engaged her as a prima 
donna. She goes to England with him, without even a female servant. 
The baron is taken suddenly sick while on the voyage, has to stop when 
the ship arrives,— she still with him. 



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The Baron in that hotel gives her deeds to a vast property. A violent 
scene ensues when they are alone, the people in the hotel hear her loud 
and angry voice, but no voice of his is heard by them.— Id a short time, 
to the astonishment of all, the baron calls the people back, and they are 
married, and the only one to give her away was her servant. She 
asking him to do it. The ceremony is scarcely over before the baron tells 
a lawyer to put her name in his will, signs it, and falls dead. She pre- 
tending to faint. She conies to Spain under the fur! her pretence of see- 
ing the baron buried. — One night a man is seen to go into her room at 
the hotel. The only mm that ever wont there before. This man turns 
out to be her own father who had only been out of prison two weeks, 
after serving fourteen years for murder. Who she said died when she 
was five years old. But instead of being dead he was a convict, and she 
comes to Spain two weeks after his release. Her father was not dead 
then, though he is now — 

Inez, — Dead now ; — Is he dead ? 

Count, — He is. Yes, he is dead, and there is the purse yon gave 
him. His companions (convicts like himself) killed hicn last night for the 
gold that was inside it — 

How now? what will a Court say to that? How about your innocence 



now 



Inez, — Oh ! God ! Oh ! God, what is to become of me ? — Monster, 
you murdered him, finish your work! Kill me ! But before you do, know 
one thing, you will never touch the wealth you steeped your soul in blood 
to get ! 

Count, — No necessity of your dying ? Marry me, and you are safe. 
Refuse me, and you die -- 

Inez, — Marry you? be bound to you? Have to call you husband? 

You I'd give up all the wealth of earth — and die ten thousand deaths 

before such a wretch as you should call me wife. — Out of my sight! — 
(Draws a stiletto)- -Or I'll send you down so deep in hell, that a lead 
Hue could not reach you in its hissing flames. Go, viper, perjurer, mur- 
derer ! Go ! 

Count, — No, but you shall go 1 

Takes out his whistle, blovis a loud note 

Enter Officer with Soldiers. 

Officer, — {To Inez) You are my prisoner. 



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Inez, — For what ? 

Officer, — For conspiracy and poisouing — by which means you procu- 
red the wealth and title of the Baron Engaltare, a Spanish nobleman, 
whose government now arrests you. 

Inez, — I am an American — 

Officer, — That gives you no right to poison a Spanish nobleman, and 
by your hellish deeds acquire his wealth and name, 

Inez, — Who dare say this ? 
. Count, — I do, his next of kin, Alphonso, Count Diego. 

Inez, — You lie, You double dyed damned villain ! 

Tries to reach with her stiletto raised to strike him. She is seized, 
disarmed end handcuffed. . is [soon as she is ironed ihe becomes like a 
statue. 

Count, — To prison with the murderess ! 
Muter Dennis. 

Dennis, — My lady — (Throws off his root and rushes towards her. 
The Soldiers keep him hock.) 

Inez, — Stop Dennis. ( To the Officer),— May I speak to my servant? 
- Officer, — Go to* her. (Dennis approaches her.) 

Inez, -(Aside to Dennis; Go for the baron's lawyer, in London. 
Tell him to come to me — 

Count, — Take her away — (They march off with her. Inez stops, turns i 
looks at the Count.) 

Inez, — Coward, perjurer, murderer? How I loathe you ! 
End. 
Scene II. 



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Act III. Scene III. 
Chancery Lane in London. — Sign on door of a house.— .Law Office. — 

CUMMINGS. solicitor. 



Enter Dennis. —Looking at the house. 

Dennis,— Here's the house. Law office Cuminiogs & Son. He's the 
man. — It won't take him long- to get her out. — 

Knocks /nird and fast — Servant opens the door. 

Servant, — 'Why don't you break the door, at once, and be done with 
it ? Who do you want ? 

Dennis, — The big lawyer. 

Servant, — You'll find him in the grave yard. 

DenniS) — Dead? (Staggers '/gainst the door post.) 

Servant, — An what would he be doing in the grave yard if he weren't 
dead? (Slams the door and exits.) 

Dennis, — Oh! what will become of me poor dear lady now ? The 
heart is gone out of me entirely. (Sinks down on the ground, his back 
against the house as if almost fainting.) What will I do at all, — at all? 
Dennis, Sir — (talking to himself.) Take a restorer.— (Takes out a bottle, 
drinks, puts it back.) That's a great medicine for an Irishman — me 
blessing on the doctor that first prescribed it. I feel better already. 
Arrah! what am I to do at all, at all ? Dennis, Sir. Ask who attends to 
his business. (Goes to door, knocks fast and loud.) 
Servant opens door. 

Servant, — And is it you again ? I thought it was the Prince of Wales. 
— What do you want now ? 



52 INEZ. 

S>ennis,— Who tinds to his business since he's dead ? 

Servant, — He has no business since he's dead. 

Dennis, — You almost killed me with the scare you gave me. 

Servant,— >W 'hat if I had'? There's too many Irishmen in the lane 
now? 

Dennis,— Arrah ! an I'm in loo much trouble to quarrel with you. 

Servant,— What ails you ? ■ 

Dennis,— A set of murdering devils have got my mistress in jail in 
Spain. She sent me here for Lawyer Cummings to get her out. Now he's 
dead, what I'm to do at all, at all ? I don't know. 

Servant, — Is she a Spaniard ? 

Dennis,— She a Spaniard ? She's an American lady from New York, 

Servant, — From New York ? 

Denn is,— Yes. 

Servant,— The American Minister is the man to get her out. Go to 
him. (Shuts the door in his face.) 

Dennis,— (In the lane) Tue American Minister? He must mane 
Father Cregan. These Englishmen know no better than to call a priest 
a minister. (That's owing to the education they get, the poor ignorant 
creatures!) Faith, then, Father Cregan sure is the very man to go to-- 
Who knows her better? Divil a one! And don't Father Cregan know the 
Cardinal ? One line from him telling them she was innocent would 
turn her out? Til be bound it would. Dennis, Sir! Take the train 
to night.— "The flying Irishman" (as they call that train for Cork) will 
put you on the steamer for New York— be two o'clock- and be to mor- 
row night you'll be out at sea. Roche's Point away behind, and New 
York in front . This is Thursday . You'll see Father Cregan on Sunday 
week. Dennis, Sir! That's your road! Go to the American Minister! 
Scene ends 



INEZ. 53 



ACT. III. 

Scene IV. Father Cregaris Library in New York. 

Enter Dennis. 

Dennis, — Here I am at last, and it's wake I am with the sea sickness. 
It's time for Mass to be out. This Sunday makes seventeen days since 
I left me lady in the hands of them villains, and. here I am,— thanks be to 
God! 

Enter F<ttli<:r Oregan. 

Father,~Why, Dennis, where did you come from, and where is your 
lady '? 

Dennis,- -From Spain, where she is in a dungeon, the innoceut dar- 
ling, charged with getting the baron's property by poisoning him. 

Father, — Monstrous lie! 

Dennis, — True for you, and I come to get you to go tack with me, 
and. put the lie down their throats. 

Father,— Why did not you go to the baron's lawyer instead of com- 
ing here? 

Dennis, — So I did; she sent me to him; but he is dead, and his man 
sent me to you, and I never stopped night or day to get to you, except 
when I was stopped on the wharf this morning by a custom house officer 
[bad luck to him!] 

Father, — That was right ; they always search the baggnge of the 
passengers. 

Dennis,- -But there's reason in all things,— divil a baggage, had I 
but a few things tied up in a handkerchief. As soon as the ship touched 
the wharf oit'l jumped, and was running up to you Stop ! says a chap 
with brass buttons. What for? says I; I'm in a hurry to see Father Cre- 



54 INEZ. 

gan, says I. I must search your baggage, says he. Take it all, says I, 
but don't keep me waiting, says I. Have you anything valuable? says 
he. I have, says I. What is it! says he. The right to vote the democ- 
ratic ticket, to turn the likes of you out of office, says I, Get out, you 
Mick, says he, and wait now until all the baggage is passed before I pass 
yours, says he. Will I? says I throwing it at his head. There take it> 
says I, distribute it among y(z all, says I. The shirt is good, but it 
wants washing, says I. The collais will do to light the stove, says I. 
They're from the Boston paper mills, soys I. You can take or leave 
the handkerchief after you're done wiping your eyes, says I. And off I 
goes up the whaif with all the bo\s aiound me crying, Want a hack, sir? 
I saw Jim Daly outside with his horses. Jim, says I, jumping upon the 
box beside him, drive as fast as ye can to Father Ciegan's, says I. And 
sure enough he did, and here I am for you to go back with me, and get 
her out. Jim told me on the way up that a steamer goes out to-morrow 
at 3 o'clock, so be the time the lamps are lit you and I will be passing the 
Hook, and I'll wait on you myself all the way over and back. Now that's 
settkd. I'll pack your valise and go on your errands, so you'll have no- 
thing to detain you. 

Father, — But what can I do? 

Ih /uu'.s, — Get her out! Of course, you're the man to do it. 

Father,— Me? 

Dennis, — Yes, you! Who else? Listen till I tell you the whole of it. 
The details I'll tell you on the way over. If you don't go they'll kill her 
entirely — entirely. Thinking that that will give them the money, — but 
it won't; it's all in bonds in New York, and ncne can get a cent of it un- 
less she's here to draw it herself,- -they have played all sorts of mischief 
on her. 

Father, — If she dies without a will, aud leaves no heirs at law it 
would all go to the State. 

Dennis, — That's as much as to say the politicians will get it all. Now 
I lave it to you, isn't it yer duty to stop that? Go r.nd bring her back 
home, and when she gets here sne'll draw the money out and send enough 
over there to build a church in thanks to God for her deliverance. She'll 
build an orphan asylum here, and lave the Sisters money enough to take 
care of them. And for your trouble, and to pay your parish for the loan 
of you (if you get her out soon), a new organ for the choir she used to 



INEZ. 55 

sing in — you want one badly, the pipes are worn out in the oukl one — 
There now, ain't it your duty to go? Say the word! Expenses for 
yourself there and back, and me to wait en yen, — vhat mere cculd 
any parish want for the loan of a priest ? 

Father, — But I don't see what good I could do by going? If I cculd 
save her I'd walk there to do it, if I could. 

Dennis, -The steamer is essier, especially as there's four thousand 
miles of sea to cross over. Father, dear, will you go? 
Father, — But, Dennis, what can I do? 

Dermis, — Get a line from the Cardinal. Do you think they'd gain- 
say the likes of him?., 

Father, — But what could the Cardinal write? 

Dermis, [hands him <i pajp< -/•]— Bead that. I wrote it on my voyage 
over. I was the whole way composing it. Just let the Cardinal put his 
fist to that, give it to you, and you put on jour best ccat, and give it to 
them, and she'll be out while you'd be mixing a punch Just read it, your 
Riverence, if you doubt my word. 

Dennis, — My glasses are in the next room. As you wrote it you 
had better read it. 

Denn is [reads, ] 
To the Spaniards that has her: — 

Turn her out; she's an innocent creature, and a good Catholic. 
Turn her out, and when she gets back to New York, where every 
cent of her money is (and no one can draw it but herself) she'll send 
mouey enough back to build a good, dacent sized church at what- 
ever place it is wanted, and yourselves to have the contract for build- 
ing it, including the stone, bricks, and mortcr, the carpenter's work? 
sidewalks and fences. But if ycu dare to kill her, you thieves of the 
world, I'll fix the last one of you. Turn her out. 

The Cardinal. 

l y S. Turn her out, or I'll let the Yankees take Cuba, and free 
all the nagurs. It's all I can do till return mail to keep them from 
doing it now. They're so mad at your touching her. 

No. 2. 1\ S. Turn her out immediately. I send Father Cregan for 
her [and a dacent man he is]. Now if you don't give her to him 
when he hands you this as soon as I hear that she ain't out I'll go 



56 INEZ. 

over myself, and take General Grant with, me, as he is disengaged at 
present, and we'll batter the town down 'round your ears. For the 
way you have treated an innocent American female. 
Mind that! 

The Cardinal. 
Father, — Dennis, keep that letter for the present. You and I will go 
to Washington to-night. I'll see Mr. Evarts; I think he'll do better than 
the Cardinal. . We can come back to-morrow night, and go on Tuesday's 
steamer. 

Dennis, — And you'll go with ma then t) save her ? 
Father, — I will go, and do all I can. 
Dennis,--G3(l bless your Riverance ! 
Father, — Gad save her, and bless us all ! 
Dennis, — Amen ! 

Father, — You must be hungry, and tired, my poor fellow! Come 
with me. 

\_As they go out.~\ 
Scene out*. 



INEZ. 57 



Act III. 

Scene V. A Prison. — Inez aprisoner, condemned to die. — Jie- 
clining on a straw bed on the dungeon floor. 

Inez- Six weeks ago I was free, planning how to divest myself of 
riches and of title, and now,— here — .in this dungeon condemned to die, 
to die to-morrow, — can God be just to let me die and that villain live 
who swore my life away ? Is there no hope for me? Must I die — .clie. — 
no, not die but be murdered ? And is my young life to end thus ? My 
God, my God ! Is there no help ? 

Dungeon door opens. Enter Dennis, dressed as the Jailor, with a 
lantern in his han d and the prison keys, lie puts down the lantern, and 
disguises his voice, 

Dennis, — Shall I bring you some more breud and water ? 

Indz,— -J do not want it. I require food for the soul, not for the 
body. 

Dennis, [in his natural voice,]. — Poor creature, God help her ! 

Inez (thinks she recognizes Dennis' voice), — That voice,— x — speak 
again — 

Dennis [disguises his voice again), — What is it? What did yon 
.say? 

Inez, — That is not the voice I heard. Has my brain joined my 



58 INEZ. 

foes? Is it to deceive me who is deceived by all --forsaken by all, even 
by Dennis? 

Dennis, — {Speaking in his natural voice). Oh, blessed Virgin, 
shield her ! 

Inez, — There is thai voice again. Oh! speak once more like that! 
Speak, oh! speak again! 

Dennis {can not control himself longer], 

Dear Jasus, save her! 

Inez, — ,Dennis! 

Dennis, — Whist! or they'll hear us! 

Inez,, — How did you get here? 

Dennis„r-Vm the jailor! 

Inez, — You? 

Dennis,— Yes, me. Father Crcgati got me the place this morning. 
The priest gave me a nole to the Governor to hire me in the place of 
the ould jai or who was promoted yesterday to a bigger situation Fa- 
ther Cregan did that much for him. So you see he had one promoted, 
and the other appointed. The appointed one is me, — do you mLid that 
now? Ar ah! Let Father Cregan aloe; he's no fool ! Devii a fool ! 

Inez,, — Father Cregan? 

Dennis, — Yes, Father Cregan. God blees ihe good ould priest ! 
He's here! 

Inez,— Here? How came he here? 

Dennis,— (aside), I must brake it easy to her, or it will be the decth 
of her. The Pope sent for him to consult with him about the crops 
He's on his way back now, and stopping over here to rest awhile. 

Inez, — Send for him to come to me. Tell him I'm to die to- mor- 
row. 

Dennis, — Don't be so sure ot that ; you don't want the last rites 
yet, and you're not likely to, until you're oulder than my ould mother 
was when she died, and she was eighty-two. God rest her soul ! 

Inez, — .What mean you? Is there any hope'? 



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Dennis,— Of course, there's hope! Plenty of it! 

Inez, — Am I not to die to-morrow? 

i?<wmVDiviladie! You'll be out of here to-night, and on the 
sea, before the morning as free as a sea gull ! 

Inez, -Free ? 

Dennis,,— Free, I tell you. What else brought Father Cregan 
here but to free you? 

Inez, — To free me? And can he? 

Dennis,— Arrah, ! Ain't he a priest? Can't he do anything ? Who 
took }cz from the Varieties to the chapel cboir? Wasn't it he? Who 
took vez from the chapel choir to fortune aod to iligance? Wasn't it he? 
And wasn't it he who tould the baron who yez was? Wasn't it he who 
tould him to many you? Wasn't it he? And what did he get for it? — . 
Divil a more than the finishing of his new chapel. And isn't it his bu- 
siness now to tak e ycz back safe and sound to America where he sent 
yez from \ And what is he to get for it 5 Only the blessing of God, and 
that he can give himself; yet a trifle you ought to give to build a cha- 
pel here, in praise of your deliveiance and the founding of an orphan 
asylum in New York with money enough for the sisters to take care of 
it, and expenses for himself here and back, r.ud me to wait on him and 
if he does the matter nate and dacent and in a hurry a trifle more for a 
new organ. That's all, and that's the way he came here, and that's the 
way you're going out of here, and when you're back home I want 
ihe money to fay the bills. 

Inez, — ,How do you know all this? 

Dennis, — Know it? Ain't I the man who made the bargain? 

Inez, — You? 

Dennis,— Yes, me. I made it in New York, and brought the good 
ould priest with me. And he'll get you out of here, and when you're 
out I want the money to pay the bills. 

IneZf-^-Take all I have but save me. 

Dennis,r-^ot a cent more than the bargain shall any of them get. 
Inez,— sO\\ ! you good man ! And I in my misery thought that you 
had deserted me. 



00 ' INEZ. 

Denniz, — Desart you ? When did you ever know a rale Irishman 
desart a friend or a female 1 ? 

Inez, — Forgive me! Tell mc all. 

Dennis, — Well, my lady! 

Inez, — Call me Inez. Titles are mockeries here. 

Dennis,- \ went to London as you bid me. The baron's lawyer 
was dead, his son told me what to do — to see the American Minister, 
(of course he meant Father Cregan), so I went to America for the Fa- 
ther and here we are, he and I. The Father, as I told you, had me 
appointed to this place. This morning the Father says \o me, Dennis, 
says he. Sir, says I. The American Minister has fixed it all, says he, 
o-iving me a wink, but for fear he should (ail, says he. "Who ? says I. 
The American Minister, says he (winking again). I'll tell you what to 
do. I will, pays I. Then, says he, a man will come to the prison, and 
say, "Jailor, the Father sent you this ; take what he gives you, and do 
as you're told." I will, says I. Do, says he, and your mistress will be 
on her way to New York to-night. 

Inez,- -To New York to-night? 

J)< nnis,- -That's what he said. Are you sure? says I. Sartin, says 
he. Good for you, says I. The money is ready when she gets to New 
Yoik. and I'll be listening to the new organ, says I. You will 
and to her singing, too, I hope, says he. Give us your blessing, Fa- 
ther, says I. Wait till I get the organ, says he laughing. But seeing 
me hurt at hip doubting me word, I'll throw you in one now, says he, 
for nothing. So he gave me his blessing, and here I am, and you'll be 
out o( this to-night. 

Door opens, enter Prison Messenger with a basket, loaves -of bread 

<>n top. 

Jailor, the Father sent you this. 

Puts down th, basket <m<l exits. Dennis rushes f<> tin basket, throws 
out tin loaves oj bread, takes out from tin' bottom a cloak and hood, >>/>< ns 
tin cloak; a letter fahs on the floor. Dennis picks it up <m<l reads. 

Put the cloak ami hood on her- Let her take the basket on her 
arm, and walk out boldly with you. They will think that she. is the 



INEZ. 61 

jailor's wife. Go straight to the steamer. We will be at sea, and on 
the way to New York in an hour. 

Inez, — Give ine the things. 

Dennis helps her on with the cloak, puts the hood over her head. She 
takes the beisket on her arm. 

Dennis,- -Now follow me. Walk like if you owned the prison and 
was going to discharge the Governor. Come ! 

77ay walk towards the door, and are close to it, when it is sud- 
denly thrown open, and the Count Diego appears, two guards with him. 

< ount,Stoy>\ 

Inez {drops the basket, the cloak and hood fall ojf.) — Lost! Lost! 
Lost ! 

Count, -■ -Bind that traitor! 

The Guards seize Dennis, 

Dennis,— Oh. ! you spawn of Oliver Cromwell ! If I ever do get 
you in New York — 

Count, — Take him away ! 

They are carrying Dennis out chained, and are clost to the door, 
when the door is suddenly thrown open, and soldiers march in, led by the 
American Minister and the Officer of the J lay. 

Officer of the Day [to the Guard and Dennis'], — Loose that man ! 

Officer [to the Count Diego], — I am ordered to arrest you for the 
murder of Juan De Plata and for perjury and conspiracy. 

[ Two of the soldiers st ize the Count.] 

Officer, [2o Inez,] — Baroness, I am ordered to lead you this, and 
deliver.it to you. 

[Beads), — Inez, tne Baroness Engaltaic, is hereby fully pardoned, 
we being satisfied of her innocence. The Officer of ihe Day will deliver 
this in person to the Baroness, and see to it that she is delivered to the 
American Minister with all honors- 

The King. 

{A* soon as the name of "the King" 1 is spoken the soldiers present 
arms.) 



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Officer {hands Inez the King's pardon). 

Baroness, you are now free and your innocence declared. As 
ordered I deliver you with all honor to the American Minister here 
present. 

American Minister, — My dear lady, I am thankful and rejoice to 
see you free. 

Inez {falling on her knees,) — Free! God is just! 

American Minister, — Protected by Him and this. 

{Displaying the American flag .) 



CURTAIN 






A DEAMA IN THEEB ACTS. 



BY IHENE ACKERMA1T. 



NE W YO RK : 
CHARLES H. BAUEK, PUBLISHER, 

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